Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Society of Tammany was first used as a power instrument by a politician whose contact with the Evil Spirit was more caress than competition: Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political counterfoil to Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters...
...never lets his wife take his Government-furnished limousine for her own use. When he was vice president of Bell Laboratories, which makes most U.S. telephones, he refused to use any influence to get his son a phone out of turn, let young Quarles wait 15 months for an instrument. In short, this was a man as different as possible from his predecessor...
...both Annapolis and West Point, the Air Force Academy already has its stock exchanges for the moment when a cadet is braced by an upperclassman. On returning to barracks, the cadet says: "New Cadet Blank returning to base, three-green"-a reference to the three green lights on the instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position and give your next checkpoint...
...sound in the air, and growing louder, is made by a musical instrument most young hipsters have never seen. Take a vellum drumhead with a fretted neck attached, string it with four or five strings, and pluck. Such an instrument worked for U.S. Negroes in the days of slavery, and its name may be derived from bandore or pandura (a lutelike musical device of North Africa). It is called the banjo...
...Happy Instrument. Banjo Teacher Walter Kaye Bauer of Hartford, Conn., whose big banjo band fills a 2,200-seat auditorium for its annual concert, believes the instrument is being better played now than in its heyday. "In the '20s a few of us warned that the professionals would kill the goose because they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces...